Overview
- Shows how designing healthier, liveable, and resilient urban precincts and cities contributes to adapt to climate change
- Helps understand real challenges cities are facing and proposes achievable solutions
- Is applicable globally, with a particular focus on cities of the Global South, including case studies in Singapore
Part of the book series: Cities and Nature (CITIES)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions.
Presenting a detailed explanation of the causes behind the current state of modern cities, the book advocates for a paradigm shift to improve the quality of life of ever-increasing urban inhabitants whilst nourishing the natural systems that sustain human and non-human life in the planet. Recognising the precious role that nature plays in the functioning of cities, it delves into the study of biophilic design and regenerative development. The book argues that these social-ecological design approaches can act as catalysts to develop conditions in urban settings that are beneficial for natural and human systems to thrive and flourish, both in ecosystem services and social-cultural systems. This is particularly relevant for the design of new quality precincts or the regeneration of degraded urban spaces to promote health, wellbeing and urban resilience. A framework is proposed to guide the process of thinking about, designing and building healthier, more liveable and resilient urban environments that raise the quality of life in cities.
The method can be used by researchers, practitioners -urban designers, urban planners, architects and landscape architects- interested in developing their work within a social-ecological perspective. It can also be used by local governments and agencies to underpin policy making, and by educational institutions to prepare graduates with necessary skills to respond to current and future built environment challenges.Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regenerating Cities
Book Subtitle: Reviving Places and Planet
Authors: Maria Elena Zingoni de Baro
Series Title: Cities and Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90559-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90558-3Published: 19 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90561-3Published: 20 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90559-0Published: 18 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2520-8306
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 235
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Urban Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Sustainable Development, Archaeology